Chapter 506: Yinglong
Using the array leader to block the enemy's army and then use the advantage of crossbows to kill the opponent. This is a tactic that Jizhou soldiers used repeatedly when suppressing the remnants of bronze horses, but today it was broken firmly by Fan Chong's ladder.
Each long ladder was deeply inserted into the Jizhou soldiers' array. The spear was too thin compared to this thing, and it was directly destroyed when it encountered it. The front row of armored men was hit on the chest by the wooden ladder. Although thick armor was blocked by the red eyebrows, the speed of the red eyebrows was greatly reduced under the attack of the crossbow spear and halberd, but they were still hit hard and several ribs were broken.
Under their push, the soldier was pushed back step by step, and his body quickly hit the person behind in the dense array. The Wei army and the Red Eyebrow began to fight, but the soldier was so pitiful that he was so clamped to vomit blood.
Some array columns were afraid of this object, and the soldiers subconsciously moved to the side, and the dense formation began to disperse, which made the long ladder rush deeper!
Although the Red Eyebrows carrying the wooden ladder were stabbed by spears on the side and fell one after another, their purpose had been achieved. The originally meticulous array of Jizhou soldiers was disrupted. As the Red Eyebrows army continued to surge, the entire front line fell into a state of chaos...
Looking at the enemy who was rushing forward with bloody eyebrows, he was calm and calm just now, feeling that it was another battle of wind. He woke up suddenly. Most of the people were forced to retreat and could not retreat. Of course, they could only grit their teeth and fight with them, but the soldiers in the back were already looking at each other and their spears were not very stable. Today's battle was a little different from the past.
The brigades, battalion lieutenants and military officers who were behind the reserve team also said in surprise: "The main force of the Red Eyebrow Army is indeed more powerful than the bronze horse and other Red Eyebrow divisions in Hebei."
"Yes, the bronze horse used to be unable to break through our array, but now the red eyebrows hit in. I think today's battle is a tough battle, and I'm afraid that many people will be lost."
The losses were too great, which was something that the heads of the Jizhou military did not want to see. Since the end of the new year, Hebei has been in chaos for many years. In addition to the Liu and the Tongma Army, the powerful men of each county and county have also organized their own armed forces in order to protect themselves.
Liu Ziyu's failure was largely betrayed by these people. Without them, they had separatist docks and actively defected to the State of Wei, and sent people to provide food, the fifth relationship could not have swept Hebei in half a year.
The so-called demise of the Northern Han Dynasty was only just one year later. The fifth republic was eager to return to the court to resolve Longyou, and had to face the attack of the Red Eyebrow in the Central Plains. Coupled with the rebellion of Youzhou, he was in a state of great trouble. How could he have time to slowly remove the private armed forces of the Hebei tyrants? He could only use these people like Liu Xiu in the south.
However, the Hebei tycoons are not a solid piece of iron, but do their own things. In their understanding, in the troubled times, the most important thing is to have soldiers on hand. Whoever has more soldiers will have a great military position in the Wei army. If they are foolish, they will have no confidence in speaking. So when they fight, if they are in a good mood, they will fight for the first time, such as the "braveness" of the Battle of the Pu River, but if it is against the wind, they will start to think about it, not talking about tactical coordination, but only about preserving their strength.
The soldiers who were in the front row were very regretful and tried their best to send someone to report to Geng Chun: "The losses are heavy, I hope I can withdraw and rest, so that the brigades in the back row can top it."
The reserve team in the back row is not willing to lose money in vain. They do not have the courage to evacuate directly from the battlefield. They just hope that the brothers in front will hold on for a while.
Just a moment of battle, several arrays of soldiers in Jizhou showed a collapse, which made Geng Chun on the car worry.
If there is a change of personal command, the Jizhou soldiers may be more important than preserving their strength, and they will give the fifth reunion a partial defeat.
Fortunately, the person who ruled them was Geng Chun.
The fifth reunification asked Geng Chun to be responsible for the Jizhou soldiers, not because he was interested in his military capabilities. Among the generals of the Wei State, Geng Chun was only considered a middle-class man, and several times worse than Geng Yan of the same clan.
But as a native of Jizhou, the emperor's in-laws and the left prime minister, Geng Chun was regarded as the leader by the powerful Hebei. Only he could distinguish the complex relationships of grievances between the families and use them to barely squeeze a piece of people in a mess, and even drive out of his hometown to fight.
However, when regional armed forces defend their hometowns, they are as fierce as tigers, and when they go abroad to fight, they can no longer work.
Geng Chun’s strategy is: coax and deceive.
Before the war started, he gave a message to the powerful, saying that the people of Jizhou had defected to Liu Ziyu earlier. If they wanted to become a noble man in Wei and be on par with the heroes of Wuling, they had to fight against Red Eyebrows and make more meritorious contributions when they attacked Qingzhou.
Fifth Ren also agreed to Geng Chun that in addition to allocating the number of ranks in Hebei this year, he also specially selected more than a dozen to the Hebei heroes who performed well, so that their children could have the opportunity to get close to the power center. Although two official selection exams have been held, how could this thing be cancelled overnight? When opening up a channel of upward movement, it is not advisable to block all the old negation, as this will only force those who could have been friends to the contrary early.
Seeing that the morale of the army was unstable today, Geng Chun knew that the old problems of the powerful people in Hebei had been dealt with again. In desperation, he asked to inform the divisions, brigades and battalions as soon as possible.
"Although the war is not easy, tens of thousands of Red Eyebrows have been captured before the war. After today's war, if the Wei army wins, there will be more than tens of thousands of thieves captured? Chun has already written to His Majesty, saying that the soldiers who have been damaged by the various brigades in Hebei have been fighting hard, and after the war, they will all be selected to replenish the entire thief captain. Your Majesty is thinking."
The fifth reunion is indeed "considering". He is not Xiu'er next door. Just use the powerful armed forces a few times. Let them fight against the red eyebrows just to drive away the tiger and swallow each other, and make up for the losses. Isn't that contrary to the original intention?
Geng Chun also vaguely understood this point, but he did not point it out. On the surface, he was still actively running for the interests of the heroes of Hebei, but in fact he also cooperated with the fifth reunion to suppress and strangle...
"I hope you will do your best. This battle is also for the future of the Hebei surnames!"
Geng Chun moved his feelings in the order: "In ancient times, Yinglong helped Huangdi fight for the emperor and killed Chiyou and Kuafu; he helped Dayu control the flood and painted the land to form a river with his tail, opened the dragon gate, and captured Wuzhiqi. Your Majesty gave Jizhou troops Yinglong Banner and Zheng, which also means that we should make such great contributions, how can we retreat when we encounter small obstacles?"
"My big banner is here, and it will not shake its size. If you do your best to fight, Geng Chun will naturally see it and report it to the emperor truthfully. It is also as quoted by Your Majesty's edict: "You all believe it, I will not break your promise." And whoever dares to turn around and hesitate will not blame Geng Chun for not thinking about the friendship of the hometown party!"
"If you don't follow your oath, I will kill you, and there will be no forgiveness!"
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Relying on the kite to indicate, Di Wulun had known that Jizhou soldiers were the first to join the enemy, but the specific details were not real even if they stood on the nest cart. They could only see dust flying and howling thousands of people, just one word: chaos.
The command post was quite busy at this moment, and cavalry from various troops arrived frequently. They sent out detailed information from all aspects and hurriedly left with the emperor's orders.
The battle between the Wei army and the Red Eyebrow immediately appeared clearly on the map in the form of war games.
"The Red Eyebrow did not fully unfold the army and fought with our troops separately."
"But it is concentrated in the north, here..."
The fifth reunion drew a line on the map, which was a stream of the Pu River called Zhuzao River. It was not very water flowing, but the amount of water was abundant, which was a good place to relax and drink. The Red Eyebrow Army first concentrated along the stream, and then four of them were 10,000 battalions, and launched an attack on Geng Chun's 20,000 Jizhou soldiers.
The four 10,000 battalions were probably commanded by Fan Chong, who held his troops by the stream without moving, staring at the battle a few miles away.
"There are still four battalions of 10,000 people who are lifting the siege of Ma Guowei. Because they are afraid of being counterattacked by Guowei, there are also cavalry cruising on the side, so they are slow to move and have not yet arrived at the stream."
"Fan Chong is very anxious."
The fifth reunion said that this attack was a forced one. Fan Chong knew very well that if the fifth reunion was dragged down and the subsequent troops arrived, and Chimei ate all the stolen food and fodder without supplies, and was exhausted, he would undoubtedly die.
Therefore, the Red Eyebrow Army is seriously disconnected - there are two or three miles between the front and the central army, and the rear army is six or seven miles away from Fan Chong's central army.
"I'm in a hurry, too."
If I had known that Ma Yuan was not at risk, the fifth reunion would have stopped twenty miles away. That was the most uncomfortable distance for the Red Eyebrows, but there was still a lot of stuff to do in this ten miles of space.
The number of red eyebrows between Heji was originally as high as more than 200,000, but the fifth Lun forced the Pu River to cross the battle, and a group of them were dispersed. Ma Yuan also fought a group of them before encountering Fan Chong. The red eyebrows were scattered and it was fine that they kept winning. Once they were defeated, it would be extremely difficult to gather them together.
There are also a group of enemies from Suiyang who are still on the road and have been seen by scouts from Yuyang's cavalry. There are also 30,000 to 40,000 people, still 30 miles away. The Dingtao defenders still failed to stop them, but they had delayed for a long time and night, causing them to arrive at the battlefield as early as tomorrow morning, and they were also marked on the map of the Fifth Reunion.
But he completely ignored these enemies.
"If you don't join the battle in time, you can't intimidate the enemy. No matter how many of these soldiers are, they are completely useless!"
In this way, the situation is very obvious. Excluding those on the road and those on the outside, in the center of the battlefield near Zhuzaoxi, there are currently 60,000 to 80,000 to 80,000 to the Wei army. Is this a pot of raw rice?
Not that Chimei raised the softest Jizhou soldiers to fight, while Sanhe, Guanzhong, and Wei County soldiers in total were three divisions, but they did not go into battle. Fan Chong had already sent half of the troops in, hoping that the Wei army would collapse from point to surface when the green forest was hit by a fierce attack...
But he was finally disappointed.
The firepower of this pot rice is strong enough to cook it out of the pot!
But at this time, some not-so-inspiring information came from the Jizhou soldiers: under the impact of the Red Eyebrow, several arrays were already showing unstable momentum. Although Geng Chun said that he could withstand it, he also hoped that the Fifth Reun would send a reserve team of thousands of people on the flanks to provide some support.
Listening to the sound of killing from the Jizhou soldiers, the black kite used in the air was swaying on the edge of Yinglong, the emergency was swaying in the air, and the ministers and staff members were also anxious: "Your Majesty, do you want to send someone to support the Jizhou soldiers?"
Some even suggested that Yuyang cavalry attack from behind and form two pairs of bread with the Jizhou soldiers...
But Wu Lun denied this suggestion: "Then he was double-teamed by Fan Chong's main force who was waiting two or three miles away? Yuyang was almost running to death. He could rush for one or two groups at most. He could not move until the last moment, so he would have great use!"
When Geng Chun sent someone to make a careful emergency for the second time, Di Wulun directly scolded: "What did the Red Eyebrow Army eat? What did the Jizhou soldiers eat? I heard that after entering Heji, Red Eyebrow entered Heji, he could only drink some porridge every day. He fought for several days and was already hungry, and he rushed forward with a arrogant and unyielding force."
"On the contrary, the Jizhou soldiers, with baggage, can still eat hot meals every day. There is even meat in the morning food. The hungry soldiers fight with the heroes. If the heroes can still be driven away by the hungry people, the Jizhou soldiers' system will be cancelled in the future!"
After training for a thousand days, the military will be used for a while. After the Jizhou soldiers were out of the countryside, the fighting will became a problem. Therefore, Geng Chun was good at being a good person in front of the powerful, and the fifth relationship had to be a strict monarch and force them forward with a knife!
But we can't force them too hard, maybe we really show you a defeat on the spot. After the fifth reunion scolded him, we still ordered the central army to send a reserve team of 5,000 people to protect the flanks of Jizhou soldiers.
For Fan Chong, the only chance of winning was to drag the Wei army into a chaotic battle.
Then the fifth reunion will go against him and try to maintain the situation. Red Eyebrow is good at assault. After a long time, not to mention the will of the Red Eyebrow warrior, most people's physical strength will inevitably be stretched. He is waiting for Fan Chong to be anxious again, and when the general is anxious, he will make mistakes.
Isn’t war just about who makes fewer mistakes?
At this moment, the scout who was looking out returned, saying that the two rabbit zithers representing the rear army, and next to the tiger zither, the signal zither suddenly turned from green to yellow.
Although the specific information has not been sent to the command post, the Fifth Reunification combined with the location of the Red Eyebrow Army on the map also roughly guessed Fan Chong's movements.
"Fan Giant, I'm still anxious."
As expected, half a moment later, the cavalry envoy who arrived quickly sent news to the fifth reunion.
The main force of Red Eyebrows left the stream, regardless of the Jizhou soldiers in the fierce battle, because Red Eyebrows had already stood firmly on the two-mile front.
So Fan Chong moved towards the back army, which was as said by Zilu, the ancestor of the Red Eyebrow, Fan Giant, indeed, specialized in attacking the enemy's weaknesses.
The miscellaneous soldiers under Dou Rong were not very effective in fighting with the civilians, and were worse than the soldiers in Jizhou. Zhang Zong’s Sanhe soldiers were known for their strong formations. As early as the battle of Youfufeng, they had to take over the cavalry of the good family and became famous in one battle, and also won Zhang Zong the nickname "Hedong Tiger".
But the Sanhe soldiers are getting more and more mile and have not slept for two nights. They are still tired and have only had less than an hour of rest. Can they withstand Fan Chong's personal attack? How can Red Eyebrow break the formation with a long ladder? This kind of local method does not have a ready-made response.
But Wu Lun asked the helpless staff: "Why didn't Red Eyebrow directly carry the tree trunk to break the formation? It also has the same effect."
This reminded everyone, saying: "Once upon the moment, the trunk of the tree is heavy. Even if the person holding the trunk has a door panel to help block the arrow, he will often be shot down by a crossbow. When the person in the front row is close, the person in the front row will be stabbed by a spear. Once the front row falls down, the trunk is bulky and unstable, and he will rush to the ground."
Some people even learned from it: "The wooden ladder is lighter. I heard that Red Eyebrows made a lot of them in order to attack Puyang, and carried them to the Pu River to help cross the river. It is also easy to collect and make."
"Yes, since it's all wooden ladders, the rear army carries more baggage and armored soldiers, and there are several things that can be blocked!"
The fifth relationship asked people to draw the map and send it to generals from all sides, so that they could clearly understand the current situation, know where the enemy is, and where the friendly forces are, so that they could clearly execute the order when they receive the order.
The emperor's proposal was also sent to the rear army.
Although communication between the various troops has been optimized, if the situation is not special, the fifth reunion rarely interferes in the "military skills" level when fighting.
Isn't this nonsense about the Supreme Commander's airdrop order that the troops fighting against the enemy temporarily replace weapons or change the sequence of the enemy? What should I do on weekdays and adapt to the situation, I still have to rely on the front-line generals.
But today's situation is special. Because I am afraid that the generals will panic and make mistakes, I can't take care of my principles even if I am worried about my fifth relationship:
Chapter completed!